Measure Video Views on a page in Google Data Studio

Measure Video Views on a page in Google Data Studio

In this post I'll show you how to measure video views on your website using Google Data Studio.

It's worth mentioning from the start that before we can measure the views in Google Analytics and then display this data in Google Data Studio, we need to add the YouTube video tracking in Google Tag Manager.

First up, the videos!

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Making a Long Term Search Console report in Google Data Studio

Making a Long Term Search Console report in Google Data Studio

In this post I'll show you how to make some charts from a long term Search Console report in Google Data studio.

This report takes data from Google Search Console and displays in ways that might be tricky, or take some time to set up in Search Console.

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Looking at Search Console Queries and Landing pages in Data Studio

Looking at Search Console Queries and Landing pages in Data Studio

In this post I'll show how to look at Search Console Queries and Landing pages and how they are related. We can do this by creating a Google Data Studio report.

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Drilling Down into Data in Google Data Studio

Drill Down into Data in Google Data Studio

In this post I'll give some examples of how you can drill down into data using Google Data Studio. This means you can examine multiple dimensions in one chart, meaning you can have more interactive tables and charts in your reports!

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How to make a Stock Market dashboard in Google Data Studio

How to make a Stock Market dashboard in Google Data Studio

In this post I'll explain the steps to creating a Stock Market dashboard in Google Data Studio. This will display the prices of shares in companies.

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Creating Custom Search Query Categories in CASE statements in Data Studio

Creating Custom Search Query Categories using CASE statements in Data Studio

In this post I'll show a method for creating custom Search Query Categories. This method involves creating custom categories using CASE statements.

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Looking at the X-Men franchise in Google Data Studio

Looking at the X-Men franchise in Google Data Studio

The film Dark Phoenix was recently released to mediocre reviews and dismal earnings at the box office. It's release, and subsequent failure to capture the imaginations of audiences or critics, most likely spells the end for the X-Men franchise under 20th Century Fox.

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One Map, many Metrics in Google Data Studio

One Map, many Metrics in Google Data Studio

One feature that might be useful in Data Studio is the ability to switch metrics while viewing a geo-map.

So for example, taking a look at the number of sessions worldwide, then switching seamlessly to the number of goal completions worldwide.

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How to add Dynamic Page Links in Google Data Studio

How to add Dynamic Page Links in Google Data Studio

Google added a new feature recently, the ability to add Dynamic Page Links in Google Data Studio. This looks to be a great new feature, and makes linking between multi-page reports much easier.

Thanks to Pat Strickler for first spotting these and sharing the update on Twitter!

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How to add a Feedback form to Google Data Studio

In this post I'll show you how to add a Feedback Form to Google Data Studio.

This will allow you and your team to post feedback about the Data Studio report, as well as to note any annotations or make comments on the data itself.

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